IMPORTANT NEWS – Community Support Programme opens 1 July 2017

The Australian Government has announced the establishment of a Community Support Programme (CSP) from 1 July 2017.
The CSP will enable communities and businesses, as well as families and individuals, to propose humanitarian visa applicants and support new humanitarian arrivals in their settlement journey. This i...

Another successful Federal Circuit Court Appeal

GMH Legal recently succeeded in an immigration law appeal before the Federal Circuit Court. The case involved an appeal of a student visa cancellation, which was eventually found to be affected by jurisdictional error in the decision of preceding Tribunal.
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Our client was an international student enrolle...

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton described the plan as one of the government’s strongest moves, building on the success of its border protection policies over the past three years and that it sent a clear message that Australia was not an option.
The Migration Act will be amended to ensure that asylum seekers...

ICAO – Machine Readable Passports

Palestinian who are issued with Travel Documents, or Sudanese and Bangladeshi nationals, as well as citizens of some African nations that have not upgraded their passports to Machine Readable Passports will not be able to travel internationally as of 24 November 2015.
This is because the International Civil ...

Major changes to the way in which a de-facto relationship is defined

The Full Federal Court has now held that living together is now not a requirement needed to satisfy the definition of a “de facto partner” in Section 5CB of the Migration Act.
In the case of SZOXP v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2015] FCAFC 69 (11 June 2015), the appellant is a citizen of C...